Recent Publications ______________________________________________

LOWENSTEIN, T.K.,  LI, J., BROWN, C.B., ROBERTS, S.M., KU, T.-L., LUO, S., and YANG, W., 1999, 200 k.y. Paleoclimate Record from Death Valley Salt Core: Geology, v. 27, p. 3-6.

YANG, W., KROUSE, H.R., SPENCER, R.J., LOWENSTEIN, T.K., HUTCHEON, I.E., KU, T.-L., LI, J., ROBERTS, S.M., and BROWN, C.B., 1999, A 200,000-year record of change in oxygen isotope composition of sulfate in a saline sediment core, Death Valley, California: Quaternary Research, v. 51, p. 148-157.

TIMOFEEFF, M., LOWENSTEIN, T.K., and BLACKBURN, W.H., 2000, ESEM X-Ray EDS: An Improved Technique for Major Element Chemical Analysis of Fluid Inclusions: Chemical Geology, v. 164, p. 171-182.

BAKER, P.A., RIGSBY, C.A., SELTZER, G.O., FRITZ, S.C., LOWENSTEIN, T.K., BACHER, N.P., and VELIZ, Y., 2001, Tropical climate changes at millennial and orbital timescales in the Bolivian Altiplano. Nature, v. 409, p. 698-701.

LOWENSTEIN, T.K., TIMOFEEFF, M.N., BRENNAN, S.T., HARDIE, L.A., and DEMICCO, R.V., 2001, Oscillations in Phanerozoic Seawater Chemistry: Evidence from Fluid Inclusions. SCIENCE, v. 294, p. 1086-1088.

LOWENSTEIN, T.K., and BRENNAN, S.T., 2001, Fluid Inclusions in Paleolimnological Studies of Chemical Sediments, In: Last, W.M. and Smol, J.P., editors, Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Physical and Geochemical Methods (Volume 2). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, p. 189-216.                                                                             

BOBST, A.L., LOWENSTEIN, T.K., JORDAN. T.E., GODFREY, L.V., KU, T.-L., and LUO, S., 2001, A 106 ka Paleoclimate Record from drill core of the Salar de Atacama, Northern Chile: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 173, p. 21-42.

TIMOFEEFF, M.N., LOWENSTEIN, T.K., BRENNAN, S.T.,  DEMICCO, R.V., ZIMMERMANN, H., HORITA, J., and von BORSTEL, L.E., 2001, EvaluatingSeawater Chemistry from Fluid Inclusions in Halite: Examples from Modern Marine and Nonmarine Environments: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 65, p. 2293-2300.

BRENNAN, S.T., and LOWENSTEIN, T.K., 2002, The major-ion composition of Silurian seawater. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 66, p. 2683-2700.

JORDAN, T.E., MUNOZ, N., HEIN, M., LOWENSTEIN, T., GODFREY, L., and YU, J., 2002, Active faulting and folding without topographic expression in an evaporite basin, Chile. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 1406-1421.

LOWENSTEIN, T.K., 2002, Pleistocene Lakes and Paleoclimates (0 to 200 Ka) in Death Valley, California: Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth Sciences Number 33: “Great Basin Aquatic Systems History (R. Hershler, D.B. Madsen, and D.R. Currey, Eds.), Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., p. 109-120.

LOWENSTEIN, T.K., HEIN, M.C., BOBST, A.L., JORDAN, T.E., KU, T.-L., and LUO, S., 2003, An assessment of stratigraphic completeness in climate-sensitive closed-basin lake sediments: Salar de Atacama, Chile.  Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, p. 91-104.

GODFREY, L.V., JORDAN, T.E., LOWENSTEIN, T.K., and ALONSO, R.L., 2003, Stable isotope constraints on the transport of water to the Andes between 22º S and 26º S during the last glacial cycle: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 194, p. 299-317.

LOWENSTEIN, T.K., HARDIE, L.A., TIMOFEEFF, M.N., and DEMICCO, R.V., 2003, Secular Variation in Seawater Chemistry and the Origin of Calcium Chloride Basinal Brines. Geology, v. 31, p. 857-860.

DEMICCO, R.V., LOWENSTEIN, T.K., and HARDIE, L.A., 2003, Atmospheric pCO2 since 60 Ma from Records of Seawater, pH, Calcium, and Primary Carbonate Mineralogy. Geology, v. 31 p. 793-796.

FRITZ, S.C., BAKER, P.A., LOWENSTEIN, T.K., SELTZER, G.O., RIGSBY, C.A., DWYER, G.S., TAPIA, P.M., ARNOLD, K.K., KU, T.-L., and LUO, S., 2004, Hydrologic Variation During the Last 170,000 Years in the South American tropics, Quaternary Research, v. 61, p. 95-104

BRENNAN, S.T., LOWENSTEIN, T.K., and HORITA, J., 2004, Seawater Chemistry and the Advent of Biocalcification. Geology, v. 32, p. 473-476.

HARDIE, L.A., and LOWENSTEIN, T.K., 2004, Did the Mediterranean Sea Dry Out During the Miocene? A Reassessment of the Evaporite Evidence from DSDP Legs 13 and 42A Cores. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 74, p. 453-461.

SATTERFIELD, C.L., LOWENSTEIN, T.K., VREELAND, R.H., ROSENZWEIG, W.D, and POWERS, D.W., 2005, New Evidence for 250 Ma age of halotolerant bacterium from a Permian salt crystal. Geology, v. 33.

SATTERFIELD, C.L., LOWENSTEIN, T.K., VREELAND, R.H., and ROSENZWEIG, W.D., 2005, Paleobrine Temperatures, Chemistries, and Paleoenvironments of Silurian Salina Formation F-1 Salt, Michigan Basin, U.S.A., from Petrography and Fluid Inclusions in Halite. Journal of Sedimentary Research.

FORESTER, R.M., LOWENSTEIN, T.K., and SPENCER, R.J., in revision, An Ostracode Based Limnologic History of Death Valley. Geological Society of America Bulletin.

LOWENSTEIN, T.K., TIMOFEEFF, M.N., KOVALEVYCH, V.M., and HORITA, J., 2005, The major-ion composition of Permian Seawater. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 69, p. 1701-1719.

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Tim K. Lowenstein
Professor of Geological Sciences

Binghamton University

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